John Schlesinger Quotes

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

John Schlesinger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003

Topics

GoodBestIdeasDoneImproveTake

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

Jennifer Hyman

BusinessGreatDreamSellingOdds

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

LifeFunWantSomethingEver

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

Robert Osborne

WorkGreatNeverSheTwoGreat Work

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.

Angie Thomas

WritingThinkImpactWorryYouJust

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

Jean O'Leary

PeopleBelieveConstitutionAmerican

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

Steven Spielberg

SoulManPeopleTrySomethingRange

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Tom Hodgkinson

ToughNapTakeGoingGets

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

Roger Ailes

MeNewsNewNothingFoxIndustry

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

Dick Cavett

HateMoviesDanny

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

Cherie Blair

I AmSayingProblemYouKnowNever

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

Christina Hendricks

MeThinkRudeJustCallingI Think

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

William Shatner

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